News
News from the Whitney lab.
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12/19/07 | |
Jason Fischer of the Whitney lab won the 2007 Michael Posner Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Cognitive Neuroimaging. His research uses fMRI to investigate the role of the Pulvinar in spatial attention. This award provides Jason with 30 hours of scanning time at the Imaging Resource Center in Sacramento. | |
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| 10/26/07 | The Whitney lab's pumpkin, Vision Shell, won the first annual CMB pumpkin carving contest. To see photos, click here. | ||||
| 5/26/07 | For the second time in three years, David Whitney was selected by students to receive the ASUCD Excellence in Teaching Award. | ||||
| 5/25/07 | Kristyn Sanders was awarded the Presidential Undergraduate Fellowship (PUF), an $850 grant for her project examining set representation. PUF is a competitive annual award given to around 20 undergraduate applicants. Kristyn will be working with Graduate Student Jason Haberman this summer on her project entitled, "Rapid extraction of mean emotion in sets of faces." | ||||
| 5/2/07 | During the annual Cognitive Neuroscience Poster Day held on Wednesday, May 2nd, Jason Fischer from David Whitney's Lab won the 2007 Gazzaniga Prize for the best poster for his poster titled "Spatial Topography and Attentional Modulation in the Human Pulvinar." | ||||
| 4/6/07 | Paul Bulakowski and Dr. Post (Psychology) were awarded a Chancellor’s Teaching Fellowship, giving them an opportunity to co-teach a course in Perception next year. This award “provides talented and highly motivated graduate students with comprehensive college teaching experiences under the close guidance of campus faculty members.” This dynamic duo also received $450 for course development. For more information: http://trc.ucdavis.edu/trc/ta/CTF/index.html | ||||
| 3/7/07 | Niki Spotswood received the competitive student travel award from the Vision Sciences Society for its annual meeting in Sarasota, Florida (May 2007). |